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any particular field, and to follow the lines on which these re- 

 searches are carried out. Tables have been prepared presenting 

 such work in chronological order, and full bibliographical notes 

 refer the reader to the original sources. A copious index completes 



this useful compilation. 



A. L. S. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Ac. 



The number (18) of Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, published in August, contains an interesting list of 

 " Eighteenth Century Records of British Plants" derived from 

 two note-books of Dr. John Hope, who was Regius Keeper of 

 the Garden from 1760-1786. The records, which extend over 

 64 pages, are preceded by an introductory note, from which we 

 extract the following : — M One of [the note-books] contains a 

 number of records, of date 1764 and 1765, of stations for plants 

 about Edinburgh and in other parts of Scotland. The fly-leaf at 

 the beginning of the book bears, in Dr. Hope's writing, ' List of 

 plants growing in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, collected, in 

 flower, 1765, as a sketch of the Galendarium Florae of Edinburgh.' 

 The writing of the manuscript is not that of Dr. Hope, and 

 internal evidence seems to show that he was not the compiler of 

 the list, but it is manifest that he had looked through it, inter- 

 polated stations, and pointed out doubtful records. Upon the 

 first page there is the heading, 'A list of plants as they were 

 collected and prepared during the year 1764, with ye place of 

 growth.' Dr. Hope has interpolated the words ' in flower ' after 

 'plants' in the heading — an expression we must accept in its 

 widest signification as used by botanists in the eighteenth century, 

 and as referring to the sporiferous condition of Thallophytes as 

 well as to the flowers of Spermophytes. The list continues in 

 calendar form from March, 1764, until January, 1765, when a 

 couple of pages are blank ; and the calendar recommences with 

 the date 14th May, and goes on until 30th October, 1765, under 

 the new heading, ' A calendar of plants as they were found and 

 prepared in the year 1765.' The first portion of the list is 

 emphatically one of plants in the vicinity of Edinburgh, There 

 are in it but a few records of stations far afield. The second 

 portion of the list has a much larger proportion of citations of 

 localities distant from Edinburgh. * 



the fly-leaf, in Dr. Hope's writing, « A Catalogue of British Plants 

 in Dr. Hope's Hortus Siceus, 1768,' and the catalogue is in the 

 same writing, with occasional interpolations, and there are entries 

 of date subsequent to 1768. These lists of eighteenth-century re- 

 cords have many features of interest, botanical and topographical, 

 and they show us also that at the period referred to considerable 

 attention was given to the flora of Scotland, and that field botany 

 was a definite part of the teaching of botany by John Hope." 



Miss Emily Margaret Wood, who was born in India on 

 August 23, 1865, died at Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, on 



The second note-book has on 



